API Mental Health: Let’s Stop Talking Taboos and Start Talking Racism

By: Jen Soriano (@lionswrite) Editor’s Note: As of May 22, 2018 the author has modified this essay to include more Native…

Zayn Malik opened up about his anxiety. Here’s why that matters.

By Guest Contributor: Lakshmi Gandhi (@LakshmiGandhi) It’s been a whirlwind fifteen months for Zayn Malik, the suave tenor who first…

Lawsuit Alleges School Didn’t Stop Bullying That Led To Girl’s Suicide Death | #ActToChange

Nearly a year after 13-year-old Emilie Olsen was found dead of an apparent suicide, her parents have filed a federal…

Why is the New York Times Rendering the Suicide Deaths of Asian American Students Invisible?

This post was written with input and inspiration from Snoopy. Yesterday, the New York Times profiled Kathryn DeWitt, a young University…

May 3: The Overlooked Battle Against Depression and Suicide Among SE Asian Americans | #APAHM2015 #ReappropriateRevisited

For this year’s AAPI Heritage Month, I will take each day to pull one of my favourite posts or pieces from the…

Obama advisor & director of WH Initiative on #AAPI shares family history of mental illness | #MentalHealth

The statistics on mental health in the Asian American community are staggering, if well-known to regular readers of this blog: Asian…

LGBTQ Native/Pacific Islander youths (aged 13-18) most likely to self-harm, attempt suicide

A new study published two months ago in the American Journal of Public Health delves for the first time into the…

May 10 is #AAPIMentalHealth Awareness Day: Let’s talk about on-campus depression & suicide | #APAHM2014

Jiwon Lee was a fourth-year dental student at Columbia University and president of Columbia’s American Student Dental Association. This past April, she took…